AVGEEK ALERT! I finally managed to hike with @Reweth out to the 1945 Canso crash site near Tofino (thread)

there were A LOT of berries along the way!

the trail goes through shore pine bog habitat. i do not know what these blue flowers are, but they're sure lovely

trail leads to tail...

peekaboo! @Reweth

There used to be a laminated news clipping attached to a bulkhead, telling the story of this amazing emergency landing in which all crew survived to walk out . That's gone now, but a thoughtful person wrote all the plane's stats & crew names on the bulkhead:

"Any landing you walk away from is a good landing." AMEN.

This plane not only had 12 crew aboard, it was fully loaded with fuel and antisubmarine ordnance. There's a bomb crater *just* before you reach the wreckage.

Feb 8, 1945: my mum's 15th birthday, as it happens

What it would have looked like in operation.

And a story from one of the survivors, age 90, in 2014. https://globalnews.ca/news/1657347/canso-11007-the-last-flight/

Here's @Reweth 's long thread with more and better photos https://twitter.com/reweth/status/1035414124421763073?s=21